> It's reassuring that this ships in Gecko, but do we have any sense of how
common it is to encounter an option w/ a label in quirks mode?

I could add a use counter but I'm not sure what results would be considered
acceptable.
Apparently firefox only had one regression bug when they shipped this
behavior: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2988#issuecomment-1378794167

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:18 PM Mike Taylor <miketa...@chromium.org> wrote:

> On 1/19/23 12:54 PM, Joey Arhar wrote:
>
> Contact emails jar...@chromium.org
>
> Specification https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2988
>
> Summary
>
> Option elements support a "label" attribute which will cause the option to
> render with the text inside the attribute rather than the child text of the
> option element itself. This functionality is disabled in quirks mode, where
> the label attribute is ignored and the child text is always rendered. This
> change will always use the label attribute in both standards mode and
> quirks mode.
>
>
> Blink component Blink>Forms>Select
> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EForms%3ESelect>
>
> TAG review None
>
> TAG review status Not applicable
>
> Risks
>
>
> Interoperability and Compatibility
>
> If websites rely on this quirks mode behavior despite firefox already
> shipping this behavior for years, then select elements won't render with
> the expected text. If too many websites are broken, I will disable this
> change via finch and try to change the HTML spec to align with chrome.
>
> It's reassuring that this ships in Gecko, but do we have any sense of how
> common it is to encounter an option w/ a label in quirks mode?
>
>
>
> *Gecko*: Shipped/Shipping (
> https://wpt.fyi/results/html/rendering/widgets/the-select-element/option-add-label-quirks.html
> )
>
> *WebKit*: No signal
>
> *Web developers*: No signals
>
> *Other signals*:
>
> Ergonomics
>
> There are no other platform APIs that this change will be used in tandem
> with.
>
>
> Activation
>
> This will not be challenging for developers to take advantage of.
>
>
> Security
>
> There are no security risks/considerations for this feature.
>
>
> WebView application risks
>
> This change does not have particularly high risk to WebView.
>
>
> Debuggability
>
> No DevTools changes are needed for this change.
>
>
> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
> Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)? Yes
>
> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
> ? Yes
>
> Flag name --enable-features=OptionElementAlwaysUseLabel
>
> Requires code in //chrome? False
>
> Tracking bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1403735
>
> Estimated milestones
>
> 111
>
>
> Anticipated spec changes
>
> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or
> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues
> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may
> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of
> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
>
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/6084027289698304
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